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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kreynolds" data-source="post: 1041787" data-attributes="member: 2829">Very light shades only equate to good printing depending upon the printer. On a 600dpi bw laser printer (like my HP LaserJet 6L), very light shades pretty much don't print at all. If they do, they all bleed together, so it's simply best not to have them in the first place (it looks odd, that's why I say that). On most color inkjets, very light shades come out decent, so it's not so bad. Strangely enough, color laser printers do just as bad as a bw laser if it's not of high enough quality. For example, very light shades (less than 20% fill) are almost non-existant or look awful on a printout from an HP Color LaserJet 4500/4550. Howeverr, on a Xerox 6200, it looks pretty good. On a Xerox Phaser 860/8200, it looks beautiful.In short, the quality of really light shades is directly proportional to the printer in question, so that's why I avoid them. About the only light shades I'll use are fleshtones and grays, but even if I use others, I won't use multiples (they tend to bleed together on some printers).This is where our opinions differ. Every RPG book I own I also have in PDF, and I use those PDFs quite extensively. Personally, I love PDF for online reading. But, like I said before, I don't think a PDF has to look like a distilled webpage. (That's the graphic designer in me on revolt. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)Depends on your resolution. At 1024x768, my layout is perfectly readable (to me) on as small as a 17-inch display. At 800x600, its perfectly readable on as small as a 15-inch display (I tested this on my laptop at both resolutions). I didn't need to scroll at all. They look great at fit-width. On the other hand, I like high resolutions, even on small displays, so I'm probably in a minority. *shrug*Well, when I'm reading a doc, whether its in hand or on screen, I want it to be attractive. Otherwise, I'll just by the book instead of printing it out.I have to disagree here. Having been a graphic designer for over half of my life, there are varying opinions on what constitutes a large border, and I've learned over the years what does and doesn't detract from the page. IMO, my borders don't detract from the actual content (though I've run into a few color schemes that did that, so I've avoided those).Absolutely. We just disagree. Basically, I'm just designing my PDF based on what I like see in a PDF from someone else.Thanks for the input! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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